PSNY Virtual Workshop: Place Holder

An all-levels generative virtual workshop with poet Lauren Camp!

Place is not background. Whether you’re within an interior, intimate space or the wider locations of history or imagination, place can help ground and orient your poems. In this generative and encouraging workshop, we’ll read poems by Aracelis Girmay, Li-Young Lee, Hala al-Shrouf and others. Let’s return to some of your vistas and doorways and rooms, places where you left footsteps and fingerprints. We will pass through again to find their important moments in your history or dreams. Expect to be surprised by how far your pen and memory stretches.

About the Instructor: Lauren Camp served as the second New Mexico Poet Laureate. She is the author of nine poetry collections, including In Old Sky (Grand Canyon Conservancy, 2024), winner of the New Mexico Book Award, which grew out of her experience as Astronomer-in-Residence at Grand Canyon National Park, and Is Is Enough (Texas Review Press, 2026). Other honors include fellowships from the Academy of American Poets and Black Earth Institute, a Dorset Prize, the New Mexico Book Award, a Glenna Luschei Award from Prairie Schooner, and finalist citations for the Arab American Book Award and Best of the Net. Her poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, Poem-a-Day, The Slowdown, Beloit Poetry Journal and have been translated into Mandarin, Turkish, Spanish, French, and Arabic. www.laurencamp.com

**This workshop will take place on Zoom.**